Thursday, December 21, 2017

That's a quick one before the end of the year. Last october the PowerShell Team, after a long debate with community members decided to rename the executable of PowerShell Core 6 from powershell.exe to pwsh.exe.

This allows to easily distinguish PowerShell Core from the PowerShell 5.1 built into your Windows 10. And now you can execute pwsh on Windows or Linux and get PowerShell Core 6 in a consistent manner.

Assuming you have moved from the PowerShell ISE to Visual Studio Code and got the PowerShell Extensions installed, there's a couple setting you have to put in place so that you can work with pwsh.exe as the default terminal:

The year 2017 is almost over. If you haven't yet played with the beta of PowerShell Core, I heartedly suggest you to do so, so that you can start getting used with a cross-platform shell available for Linux, Mac or Windows. You can find it open sourced here.

If you still stick with the PowerShell ISE, you should give a try to Visual Studio Code, which you can download here. For those of you familiar with the ISE, there's a great video tutorial by fellow MVP Mike F Robbins which shows you how to make your Visual Studio Code ISE-like. Just add the two settings above and you'll get a familiar environment ready for PowerShell Core.